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coffee-kettles

coffee-kettles is the plural of coffee-kettle.

Meaning of coffee-kettle

Noun

coffee-kettle (plural coffee-kettles)

  1. A kettle or metal pot used to brew coffee.
    • A middle-aged peasant woman of a very common and unintellectual appearance was busy blowing into a blaze some branches and sticks of wood under the coffee-kettle on the open hearth.1886, Peter Christen Asbjø￵rnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 296

Questions about coffee-kettles

What is coffee-kettles the plural of?
Coffee-kettles is the plural of coffee-kettle.

Words near coffee-kettles in the dictionary

  1. coffee-glasses
  2. coffee-house
  3. coffee-houses
  4. coffee-ing
  5. coffee-kettle
  6. coffee-kettles
  7. coffee-klatch
  8. coffee-klatched
  9. coffee-klatches
  10. coffee-klatching
  11. coffee-klatsch

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